2020 CONCACAF League

2020 CONCACAF League
2020 Scotiabank CONCACAF League
The Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium in Alajuela hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates20 October 2020 – 3 February 2021
Teams22 (from 11 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsCosta Rica Alajuelense (1st title)
Runners-upCosta Rica Saprissa
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Goals scored60 (2.73 per match)
Attendance0 (0 per match)
Top scorer(s)Costa Rica Johan Venegas
(6 goals)
Best player(s)Honduras Alexander López
Best young playerCosta Rica Fernán Faerron
Best goalkeeperCosta Rica Leonel Moreira
Fair play awardCosta Rica Alajuelense
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2021 →

The 2020 CONCACAF League (officially the 2020 Scotiabank CONCACAF League for sponsorship purposes) was the fourth edition of the CONCACAF League, a football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.[1]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CONCACAF announced on 23 June 2020 that the start of the tournament, which was scheduled to begin on 28 July 2020 and end in November, had been postponed.[2] On 7 August 2020, they announced the tournament would begin on 20 October and end on 28 January 2021.[3] To ease the schedule, CONCACAF originally announced that the preliminary round and round of 16 would be played as single-leg matches, but on 29 October 2020, CONCACAF announced that this format had been extended to all rounds, with ties hosted by the higher-seeded teams based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking.[4] The final was also rescheduled to 3 February 2021.

Alajuelense defeated title holders Saprissa in the final to win their first CONCACAF League title. As winners, they and the next best five teams qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League.[5][6] After the format change of all rounds to single-leg matches, it was decided a play-in round would be added for the four losing quarter-finalists to compete for the last two places in the CONCACAF Champions League.[4]

  1. ^ "Details revealed for newly launched Scotiabank CONCACAF League". CONCACAF League. 8 May 2017. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Concacaf Statement – 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf League". CONCACAF. 23 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Concacaf launches plan to resume suspended Club Competitions". CONCACAF. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Concacaf agrees to new format to complete 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf League". CONCACAF. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Concacaf Announces Scotiabank Concacaf League Expansion". CONCACAF. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Scotiabank CONCACAF League 2020 Regulations" (PDF). CONCACAF.[permanent dead link]